2004 bollinger, la grande annee rose

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Why We're Buying

The sibling of Bollinger La Grande Année, the Rosé version has a personality all its own. It leads with strawberry and raspberry aromas while maintaining the multi-layered complexity that Bollinger is known for. To quote Wine.com's Wilfred Wong, "No one does it better." It was the least surprising news of the year. Critics loved 2012 Bollinger La Grande Année Rosé. Not only that, but the Champagne earned its highest aggregate scores of any vintage. La Grande Année Rosé wins over people from the start with lavish aromas and flavors of red berries, honey, nuts, and sweet spice. Known as James Bond’s favorite Champagne, Bollinger is often described as powerful and muscular. While La Grande Année Rosé demonstrates consistent weight and power, it wields more grace and subtlety than most wines in the Bollinger portfolio. The driving forces behind this multidimensional rosé: an immaculate 2012 growing season. A mild and sunny autumn led to richly concentrated ripe grapes. Contrary to the prevailing customs of the region, Bollinger ages the champagne in magnums rather than tanks. The result is a wine that is uniquely Bollinger.

Critics Scores

Burghound.com

A gorgeously complex, pure and refined nose of delicate red berry fruit, yeast and brioche aromas introduce delicious, fresh and strikingly intense flavors that are supported by an extravagant mousse that imparts a real sense of vibrancy to the dry, yeasty and again impressively complex finish. This is a really impressive rosé that is drinking well now though depending on your taste preferences could also just as easily be held for another 5 to 10 years.

Wine Spectator

Framed by firm acidity and a minerally character, this harmonious rosé Champagne offers expressive flavors of raspberry pâte de fruit, ripe black cherry, brioche and lemon curd. Chalky in texture, with an elegant finish of spice, graphite and ground coffee. Disgorged July 2014.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2004 La Grande Annee Rose is based on 68 Pinot Noir and 32 Chardonnay, 89 from Grand Cru villages and 11 from Premier Crus. Disgorged in July 2013, this salmon colored rosé champagne displays fine red berry and floral flavors on the nose, whereas the palate is vibrant, taut and linear; it is full of tension, power and minerality, and extremely refreshing but not as elegant and refined as the white twin. The finish is a little bit stringent.

Wine Enthusiast

This grand rosé is rich and rounded. Its red fruit flavors are layered with toast and spice notes, with depth that gives the wine another dimension of complexity.